On Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 4:44 PM Rick Bensene via cctalk
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> Correction to my posting of 2/10/2025
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> There was a company called Xircom that made parallel port modems. These
> were full modems that were small enough that they plugged into a laptop
> serial port, and got their power from t
Henry wrote:
> I remember those, and when I went searching to look for more information on
> them I found something I > hadn't stumbled on before - apparently Xircom made
> a parallel port Ethernet adapter. It must have
> been pretty painful. The parallel port wasn't a great high speed interfa
On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM Rick Bensene via cctalk
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> I will try to find my Xircom parallel port Modem and Ethernet adapters in a
> box somewhere in my storage area and take a photo of them. If I can find
> them, I’ll post a link here to the photos so those in disbelief can see the
On 2/14/25 1:43 AM, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
That would be cool. I found this link for all the networking gear:
https://www.ardent-tool.com/Xircom/Xircom_Pocket_Adapters.html
And found parallel port multiplexers.
Do you have drivers for them?
I think DOS packet drivers supported the PE3.
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On 2/13/2025 5:54 PM, Henry Bent via cctalk wrote:
On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 at 18:44, Rick Bensene via cctalk
wrote:
There was a company called Xircom that made parallel port modems. These
were full modems that were small enough that they plugged into a laptop
serial port, and got their power from
On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM Warner Losh via cctalk
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> On Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 4:44 PM Rick Bensene via cctalk
> wrote:
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> > Correction to my posting of 2/10/2025
> >
> >
> >
> > There was a company called Xircom that made parallel port modems. These
> > were full modems that were small
On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 at 18:44, Rick Bensene via cctalk
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> There was a company called Xircom that made parallel port modems. These
> were full modems that were small enough that they plugged into a laptop
> serial port, and got their power from the laptop via the
> external mouse/keyboard
> On Feb 13, 2025, at 6:54 PM, Henry Bent via cctalk
> wrote:
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> On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 at 18:44, Rick Bensene via cctalk
> wrote:
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>> There was a company called Xircom that made parallel port modems. These
>> were full modems that were small enough that they plugged into a laptop
>> ser
Does anyone know anything about the whereabouts of Megan Gentry, former
RT-11 developer?
She left her last trace in 2020, when she ported ZEMU to RT-11.
This link has an update from 2023, along with an email address.
https://www.pdp-11.nl/fieldguide.html
On 2/13/2025 12:24 AM, Hans-Ulrich Hölscher via cctalk wrote:
Megan Gentry
Unfortunately both addresses do not work, but thanks anyway!
Ulli
Am Do., 13. Feb. 2025 um 10:28 Uhr schrieb J. Peterson via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org>:
> This link has an update from 2023, along with an email address.
>
> https://www.pdp-11.nl/fieldguide.html
>
> On 2/13/2025 12:24 AM, Han
Try Gentry, Megan or "m...@verizon.net" <
m...@verizon.net>
On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 8:37 AM Hans-Ulrich Hölscher via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Unfortunately both addresses do not work, but thanks anyway!
>
> Ulli
>
> Am Do., 13. Feb. 2025 um 10:28 Uhr schrieb J. Peterson via ccta
On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 01:13:26 -0800
"J. Peterson via cctalk" wrote:
> This link has an update from 2023, along with an email address.
>
> https://www.pdp-11.nl/fieldguide.html
Megan used to be one of the maintainers of that list, but I don't think
that was recent. She renewed her ham radio licen
On 2025-02-13 12:11, Michael Thompson via cctalk wrote:
Try Gentry, Megan or"m...@verizon.net" <
m...@verizon.net>
On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 8:37 AM Hans-Ulrich Hölscher via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
Unfortunately both addresses do not work, but thanks anyway!
Ulli
Am Do., 13. Fe
> On Feb 13, 2025, at 1:41 PM, Nigel Johnson Ham via cctalk
> wrote:
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> On 2025-02-13 12:11, Michael Thompson via cctalk wrote:
>> Try Gentry, Megan or"m...@verizon.net" <
>> m...@verizon.net>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 8:37 AM Hans-Ulrich Hölscher via cctalk <
>> cctalk@classiccmp.org>
Correction to my posting of 2/10/2025
There was a company called Xircom that made parallel port modems. These were
full modems that were small enough that they plugged into a laptop serial
port, and got their power from the laptop via the external
mouse/keyboard port. They had a feed-though
On Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 5:32 PM Rick Bensene via cctalk
wrote:
> Henry wrote:
>
> > I remember those, and when I went searching to look for more information
> on them I found something I > hadn't stumbled on before - apparently Xircom
> made a parallel port Ethernet adapter. It must have
> > been
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